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WNYE Radio: Writers on Writing
Jun 16 at 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Writers on Writing: Interview with Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
With Dr. Brenda M. Greene, Founder and Executive Director, Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY
Sunday, June 16, 2024
7:00 PM – 7:30 PM ET
WNYE 91.5 FM
Dr. Brenda M. Greene interviews Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, author of A Woman of Endurance (Amistad, 2022). Greene and Llanos-Figueroa discuss her motivation for writing this historical novel set in the nineteenth century and steeped in the culture of Africa and Puerto Rico. Llanos-Figueroa explores themes reflective of the human experience and centered on the life of the enslaved woman Pola, a deeply spiritual African woman who is captured and later sold for the purpose of breeding future slaves. This novel is a testament to how one survives loss, grief, and pain. Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa is the author of Daughters of the Stone, which was listed as a 2010 Finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her short stories appear in several anthologies, including Bronx Memoir Project, Latina Authors and Their Muses, Chicken Soup for the Latino Soul, Breaking Ground: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Writers in New York 1980 to 2012, and Growing Up Girl.
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